Arts & Sciences
Book XIV, 139
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
Arts & Sciences
Diodorus, great glory of dial-makers, tell me the hour since when the golden wheels of the sun leapt up from the east to the pole. Four times three-fifths of the distance he has traversed remain until he sinks to the western sea.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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